CorePower Yoga Leadership

As the West Coast Director of Operations, Heather is honored to serve on the Board of Directors of CorePower Yoga. Heather is the longest continuous staff member for CorePower Yoga being hired as the second studio manager in 2003. In addition to having tenure, she has served in a number of varied strategic and operational capacities. Heather served as the Regional Manager of Colorado, then later moved to Huntington Beach to develop the emerging markets along the West Coast as CorePower expanded its’ studio reach. With specific expertise and aptitude in designing and directing the strategy and content for classroom instruction and programming, Heather developed the first Hot Yoga Teacher Training program at CorePower Yoga. She has contributed to over 50 teacher trainings, developed and lead the CorePower Yoga Nutrition Program and is the current National Director for Teacher Training. Prior to CorePower Yoga, Heather was one of the youngest program leaders ever for Landmark Education and coached nine continuous Introduction Leaders Programs over the course of five years. She excelled at leading transformational seminars and coaching, and brings those talents to her yoga classes. She then worked in custom home building as an interior designer, project supervisor and supervising estimator honing her skills of managing a dynamic and varied team as well as strategic situations. Heather found that the yoga practice her mother introduced her to as a young child allowed her to be positive and empowering through all challenges in her varied career and decided to make that her life’s work. In 2003 she was certified in Hot Yoga, Pilates and CorePower Yoga and began teaching full time. Since then, she has trained extensively all over the U.S. and traveled to India to study Ayurveda and Sanskrit. Heather has taught nationally at Yoga Journal Conferences and the Wanderlust Yoga Festival and her students comment that her yoga classes are enlivened, fun and transformational. She is one of only 100 hundred people in the world certified to teach Om Healing Technique by Swami Vishwananda and shares her passion for healthy living with her students. Heather is the personification of CorePower Yoga’s foundation and mission that exceptional business and exceptional yoga can complement and enhance each other. She excels at empowering her managers, teachers and students to lead their most extraordinary lives. Heather is blessed to have a loving family and incredible husband, Xiren, a musician who loves practicing and performing at CorePower Yoga.

Ross Dairiki is an Yoga Instructor, Client Engagement at Flamingo: Resident Engagement Platform and Founder, Chief Operating Officer at CorePower Yoga and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Account Executive at YELP INC, Social Media Intern at The Narrative Loft, and Studio Manager at CorePower Yoga. Ross attended University of California Santa Barbara between 2013 and 2017 and Menlo-Atherton High School between 2009 and 2013.

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As the West Coast Director of Operations, Heather is honored to serve on the Board of Directors of CorePower Yoga. Heather is the longest continuous staff member for CorePower Yoga being hired as the second studio manager in 2003. In addition to having tenure, she has served in a number of varied strategic and operational capacities. Heather served as the Regional Manager of Colorado, then later moved to Huntington Beach to develop the emerging markets along the West Coast as CorePower expanded its’ studio reach. With specific expertise and aptitude in designing and directing the strategy and content for classroom instruction and programming, Heather developed the first Hot Yoga Teacher Training program at CorePower Yoga. She has contributed to over 50 teacher trainings, developed and lead the CorePower Yoga Nutrition Program and is the current National Director for Teacher Training. Prior to CorePower Yoga, Heather was one of the youngest program leaders ever for Landmark Education and coached nine continuous Introduction Leaders Programs over the course of five years. She excelled at leading transformational seminars and coaching, and brings those talents to her yoga classes. She then worked in custom home building as an interior designer, project supervisor and supervising estimator honing her skills of managing a dynamic and varied team as well as strategic situations. Heather found that the yoga practice her mother introduced her to as a young child allowed her to be positive and empowering through all challenges in her varied career and decided to make that her life’s work. In 2003 she was certified in Hot Yoga, Pilates and CorePower Yoga and began teaching full time. Since then, she has trained extensively all over the U.S. and traveled to India to study Ayurveda and Sanskrit. Heather has taught nationally at Yoga Journal Conferences and the Wanderlust Yoga Festival and her students comment that her yoga classes are enlivened, fun and transformational. She is one of only 100 hundred people in the world certified to teach Om Healing Technique by Swami Vishwananda and shares her passion for healthy living with her students. Heather is the personification of CorePower Yoga’s foundation and mission that exceptional business and exceptional yoga can complement and enhance each other. She excels at empowering her managers, teachers and students to lead their most extraordinary lives. Heather is blessed to have a loving family and incredible husband, Xiren, a musician who loves practicing and performing at CorePower Yoga.

Ross Dairiki is an Yoga Instructor, Client Engagement at Flamingo: Resident Engagement Platform and Founder, Chief Operating Officer at CorePower Yoga and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Account Executive at YELP INC, Social Media Intern at The Narrative Loft, and Studio Manager at CorePower Yoga. Ross attended University of California Santa Barbara between 2013 and 2017 and Menlo-Atherton High School between 2009 and 2013.